This unique truss and girder bridge carries the CTA Yellow Line over the North Shore Channel, McCormick Boulevard and an abandoned C&NW line

Skokie, Cook County, Illinois

Owner: Chicago Transit Authority

Status: In Use

Built 1925

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Hansell-Elcock Company of Chicago, Illinois and L.E. Meyers Company of Chicago, Illinois

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Railroad/Original Owner: Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad and Northwestern Elevated Railroad

Design: 120' double intersection Warren deck truss, 105' Pratt pony truss and deck plate girder

Truss and girder bridge over North Shore Channel, McCormick Boulevard and abandoned C&NW Railway

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This abandoned stone arch bridge is the northern of two parallel arches west of Pearl

Pearl, Pike County, Illinois

Owner: Private Owner

Status: Abandoned

Built c. 1870

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Unknown

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Railroad/Original Owner: Chicago & Alton Railroad

Design: 12' stone arch

Stone arch bridge over 467th Street

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This small deck plate girder bridge crosses an unnamed creek along County Road 2200N near the small town of Royal

Royal, Champaign County, Illinois

Owner: Union Pacific Railroad

Status: In Use

Built 1913 reusing a span fabricated 1906

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Unknown

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Railroad/Original Owner: Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad

Design: 30' deck plate girder and timber pile trestle

Deck plate girder bridge over unnamed creek

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This concrete deck girder bridge carries the former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad over River Street in Aurora

Aurora, Kane County, Illinois

Owner: BNSF Railway

Status: In Use

Built 1921

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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Railroad/Original Owner:

Design: 2-36' concrete deck girder and 2-13' concrete slab

Concrete deck girder bridge over River Street

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This deck plate girder bridge carries the former Santa Fe over the Des Plaines River in Lyons

Lyons, Cook County, Illinois

Owner: BNSF Railway

Status: In Use

Built 1898

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Unknown

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Railroad/Original Owner: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway

Design: 6-52' deck plate girder and 2-30' concrete slab

Deck plate girder bridge over Des Plaines River

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